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Really smart groups

I've been working on incorporating Bayesian filtering into Shrook. You'll be able to create a new kind of group that you can teach by example what kind of items you want to see, and what kind you don't. After a few examples it's able to find more items like the ones you've shown it.

I'm posting this today because I've finished a rough prototype of the functionality, and it actually works. I wasn't sure whether there'd be enough text in each item for it to go on, or whether it would require an impractical number of examples before it makes decent matches. But no, it seems like a viable feature. It'll be in Shrook 2.4, out sometime next week.

-- Graham, September 8th, 2005 8:07 PM.

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Now, THIS sounds cool! Congratulations on coming up with something that's both innovative AND useful. You don't see that every day.

Lately I've been looking at the way I spend my time, and figured that I, for example, spend too much sifting through RSS feeds where there are many posts of which just a few interest me. (Like the MacWorld ones, for example.) But I wouldn't want to not subscribe to them either, as I'd miss those select few. Looking forward to try this out!

-- Travholt, September 9th, 2005 8:46 AM.

oh yeah, i've been dreaming of this feature ever since i started using shrook, but never dared to imagine it actually being implemented - rock on !

-- stefan, September 9th, 2005 2:24 PM.